William Ames (1576–1633) was Perkins’ pupil at Cambridge, driven out of England for nonconformity, and professor of theology at Franeker in Friesland for eleven years. He sat at the Synod of Dort as adviser to its president. His Medulla was the textbook of New England divinity for a century, and its opening definition — that divinity is the doctrine of living to God — is the sentence the whole Puritan enterprise turns on.
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- The Marrow of Sacred Divinity — His systematic theology in two books, faith and observance; the 1642 English translation of the Medulla Theologiae. (63 notes)